Heart Like a Wheel
E570322
Heart Like a Wheel is a celebrated song by Canadian songwriter Anna McGarrigle, best known through Linda Ronstadt’s hit 1974 cover that helped popularize McGarrigle’s work.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Heart Like a Wheel canonical | 6 |
| Heart Like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt recording) | 1 |
| Heart Like a Wheel (song) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6122207 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heart Like a Wheel Context triple: [Anna McGarrigle, notableWork, Heart Like a Wheel]
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A.
Heart Like a Wheel
Heart Like a Wheel is a critically acclaimed 1974 album by Linda Ronstadt that helped establish her as a leading voice in country rock and pop music.
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B.
The Wheel Spins
The Wheel Spins is a 1936 mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, best known as the source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes.
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C.
Harvester of Hearts
Harvester of Hearts is a song by the American rock band Want One, known for its emotive lyrics and melodic, guitar-driven sound.
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D.
No Sound But a Heart
No Sound But a Heart is a 1987 pop album by Sheena Easton that marked a more mature, adult contemporary direction in her music career.
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E.
Heart Like a Sky
Heart Like a Sky is a late-1980s studio album by British new wave band Spandau Ballet, showcasing their polished pop-rock sound during the latter part of their career.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Heart Like a Wheel Target entity description: Heart Like a Wheel is a celebrated song by Canadian songwriter Anna McGarrigle, best known through Linda Ronstadt’s hit 1974 cover that helped popularize McGarrigle’s work.
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A.
Heart Like a Wheel
Heart Like a Wheel is a critically acclaimed 1974 album by Linda Ronstadt that helped establish her as a leading voice in country rock and pop music.
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B.
The Wheel Spins
The Wheel Spins is a 1936 mystery novel by Ethel Lina White, best known as the source material for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic film The Lady Vanishes.
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C.
Harvester of Hearts
Harvester of Hearts is a song by the American rock band Want One, known for its emotive lyrics and melodic, guitar-driven sound.
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D.
No Sound But a Heart
No Sound But a Heart is a 1987 pop album by Sheena Easton that marked a more mature, adult contemporary direction in her music career.
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E.
Heart Like a Sky
Heart Like a Sky is a late-1980s studio album by British new wave band Spandau Ballet, showcasing their polished pop-rock sound during the latter part of their career.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
song
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song recording ⓘ studio album ⓘ |
| composer | Anna McGarrigle ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfRelease |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| genre |
country rock
ⓘ
folk ⓘ folk rock ⓘ soft rock ⓘ |
| hasNotableCoverVersion |
Heart Like a Wheel (Linda Ronstadt recording)
ⓘ
linked to:
Heart Like a Wheel
|
| hasNotablePerformer | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| hasSongwriter | Anna McGarrigle ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Heart Like a Wheel ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| lyricist | Anna McGarrigle ⓘ |
| madeFamousBy | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| notableFor | helping to popularize the songwriting of Anna McGarrigle ⓘ |
| partOfAlbum |
Heart Like a Wheel (album)
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linked to:
Heart Like a Wheel
|
| performer |
Linda Ronstadt
ⓘ
Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
| producer | Peter Asher ⓘ |
| publicationYear |
1974
ⓘ
1974 ⓘ |
| vocalist | Linda Ronstadt ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Heart Like a Wheel Description of subject: Heart Like a Wheel is a celebrated song by Canadian songwriter Anna McGarrigle, best known through Linda Ronstadt’s hit 1974 cover that helped popularize McGarrigle’s work.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Heart Like a Wheel
linked to: Heart Like a Wheel